The Dovekeepers

By: Alice Hoffman

over five years in the writing, the dovekeepers is alice hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient israel.in 70 c.e., nine hundred jews held out for months against armies of romans on masada, a mountain in the judean desert. according to the ancient historian josephus, two women and five children survived. based on this tragic and...